Posted on 06/25/2004 11:37:33 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
I guess campaign finance reform was just to stifle those damned Republicans.
Lord, this makes me so sick. No president has ever suffered the onslaught of lies, propaganda and outright attacks that Bush has. If he wins, it will be a miracle. Why don't the Pubbies stand up and fight? Do they WANT to lose?
Though bad,many,many,MANY other presidential campaigns were as dirty/nasty;the left against Nixon and Goldwater,in recent memory and those involving most of our FFs and onwards.
Since Hollywood is NOT a Conservative or GOP bastion,just WHAT,exactly,do you want the RNC/GOP to do to "fight back" ?
The dummies will think this is reality "TV."
Ignoring all all the other crap in this article; would Mr. Ortenberg have made the same argument for a right-wing equivalent to Moore's leftist diatribe?
The answer is "no".
The left's compulsive need to interject their politics into their non-political jobs is pseudo-intellectual masturbation and is just as appropriate to their professions as the physical act would be.
It's simply disgusting.
Life throw you some fun now and then!
And they need control of education.
Thanks for starting out right away with a personal insult, di__head.
There is always opposition, but never to this filthy, lying over-the-top orchestrated magnitude.
They are, you just don't hear much about it in the "news."
Politics aren't as bad as they used to be. If I recall correctly, it's this July 11 that will be the 200-year anniversary of Vice-President Burr shooting Alexander Hamilton dead in a duel over a couple nasty elections.
I've heard some of their quiet milquetoast objections. They were underwhelming.
I really don't know Scorcese's politics, so I just assume he's a liberal. But he spent a good deal of his own money to restore "El Cid" and they did a fabulous job.
He spoke before they screened it, about how wonderful the movie was, and how timeless the stars (who were both there) were.
This was before (obviously) the War on Terror (so defeating the Muslim horde wasn't particulary controversial yet) and before Heston went very public with his NRA affiliation.
Heston was the best that night. After Scorcese introduced him, he went up to the stage and thanked "Marty" for his devotion to the restoration of cinemas old gems. All class, he said that the restoration brought back the beauty of the film, but then said something along the lines of, "But there was one element to the film that needed no restoration in it's timeless beauty. I'm speaking, of course, of my lovely and ageless co-star, the forever-beautiful Sophia Loren." She said nothing, but just waved to the crowd like she was the Queen of England. I hate to admit, but she was around seventy years old, and she still looked pretty fine, in a old lady sorta way.
After a standing ovation, he sat right next to her and watched the whole film.
It was really cool to see.
Hamilton called that duel, and it was over a lifetime of enmity between them. Hamilton sucked BTW. Good riddance to him.
He looks like he's skimming for krill.
lol
There wasn't any radio or T.V. or movies, but broadsides and pamphlets and newspapers and rumor mills were just as effective and NASTY in the 18th century.You really need to go look into this.All manner of NASTY has always been been used,in political campaigns,from calling Jackson's wife a whore and him an adulterer,when THAT mattered, to lying about Cleveland having a bastard child,when THAT mattered,and on and on.
Don't talk about things you know little about and nobody will then correct you. :-)
Please, please, PLEASE go read some American history.
To compare anything written about what happened in Waco to the bald faced lies of Michael Moore is a joke.
Not to mention that I'm having a hard time remembering the awards you speak of for the Waco massacre documentaries that never saw the big screen?
Many of our founding fathers thought Hamilton was trying to set up a monarchy with himself as king.
If some wild-eyed nut thinks that's a good thing, then ... well ... to each his own.
Films like 'Fahrenheit 9/11' are turning movie theaters into propaganda centers as they were in 1930's Germany.
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